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Consider an ordinance amending the corporate city limits of the City of Killeen to disannex approximately 26.57 acres of land out of the K. Erhard Survey, Abstract No. 292, being generally located east of the terminus of Hollow Drive and declaring said land to no longer be a part of said City.
SUMMARY
DATE: November 9, 2021
TO: Kent Cagle, City Manager
FROM: Tony D. McIlwain, AICP, CFM; Exec. Dir. of Development Services
SUBJECT: Disannexation of approximately 26.57 acres of land
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
On August 4, 2021, the City of Killeen received a petition for the disannexation of approximately 26.57 acres of land out of the K. Erhard Survey, Abstract No. 292. The property is generally located east of the terminus of Hollow Drive. The property is zoned “A” (Agricultural District) and is currently undeveloped and unplatted. The subject property was annexed into the City of Killeen on December 18, 2007, as part of a larger annexation. The subject property is contiguous to the existing city limits of Killeen, and the City of Killeen does not provide the subject property with any municipal services.
Sec. 42.142 of the Texas Local Government Code provides that a home-rule municipality may disannex an area in the municipality according to rules as may be provided by the charter of the municipality. Section 7 of the City Charter provides that the City Council shall have power, by ordinance, to fix and extend the boundaries of Killeen and to exchange area with other municipalities, with or without the consent of the territory and inhabitants annexed or relinquished. Upon the introduction of such ordinance by the City Council, the procedures for disannexation set forth by state law shall be followed, as found in Chapter 43, Local Government Code, and as may hereafter be amended. Once disannexed, the territory and inhabitants shall not be a part of Killeen and shall not be entitled to the rights and privileges or bounds by the acts, ordinanc...
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